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I think you're being a bit strong with the "So be wary of the grass, not the woods" In the trees they drop down on you from above. Had them do that many times. The general consensus is to wear a hat when mushrooming in the places I've been.
Ticks do not drop from trees.
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Yep. About 20 years ago my gran got to the facial palsy stage of Lyme's before it was even considered and diagnosed by a visiting locum doctor who'd grown up in another country. Antibiotics were given, her face recovered (albeit slowly). It's a horrendous disease.
May I ask: Did the muscles on the side of the face with the affection also restore or does she have an muscle-atrophy until today on that side?
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The "exhausting treatment" is a single pill, once.
for lyme disease? Can you share which? I believe in my country this is treated differently...
If you catch it early before it takes hold, the treatment is almost inconsequential. If you delay, it's up to a 4 week course of antibiotics.
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When I think about moving to the NE from out west, ticks are one of my main reservations. I think, given how many people and dogs recreate out there, I might have it blown out of proportion.
I live in the NE and just picked up Lyme for the second time in 3 years. My child and several friends have had it in the past few years. The problem is that some tick species are unbelievably small and easy to miss. With winters not being as cold, they don't die off as much as they traditionally would. I'd hate to move, but if we keep getting infected, it's not out of the question.
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1986 is forty years ago. We have Lymes disease in Scotland (I know someone who has it), and a large deer population which has not been properly controlled with substantial remote areas. (Much smaller than the USA but big enough to be reservoirs for the disease.)
> 1986 is forty years ago. Epidemiologically recent (and also dofm-recent because I'm old). But the graphs typically show that Scotland ballooned in the last twenty years, from below a hundred a year into the thousands. Apparently in the UK it is now mostly stable, so it is endemic in deer. Much more common in middle-aged people who are I guess more likely to walk the dog and be keen active gardeners.
The deer thing is annoying. They have been mostly bred as game animals, and yet they aren't treated as game anymore for the most part so their numbers have exploded.
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It's been 15 years since I worked on open source PCR machines, but has someone not figured out how to build a "one time use" disposable type qPCR test? A single test, not an instrument. There's no way these types of tests should be left up to lateral flow etc.
how about Lucira?
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All those people who claimed to get autoimmune problems after the vaccine, must have been people who went to quite a bit of trouble to get the vaccine in the first place, so I'm not so sure it can all be written off as health panic.
Lyme disease has a long, storied history in alternative medicine and anti-vax communities. I would not be surprised if many of the people seeking the vaccine early were in those communities and entered with a distrust of vaccines, but thought the risk of Lyme disease outweighed their perceived risk of the vaccine. Once they got the vaccine they fixated on it as the source of their problems. This exact pattern has bee…
As I said, these are people who went to some effort to try a novel vaccine. If they do that, I think it's unlikely that they are anti-vaxxers. Presumably they'd also know - or would be told - that the vaccine can't be expected to work on any post-Lyme symptoms you already have.